The Pentagon said 22 NAVY SEALs were killed in an overnight ambush, the worst Taliban attack in 10 years. Photo: REUTERS

The U.S. Department of Defense has officially identified the 30 service members, 22 of them part of the Navy SEALs commando unit, Team Six, who died Saturday in Afghanistan when their CH-47 Chinook helicopter was shot down by the Taliban.

It was the biggest single loss of life for American and NATO forces since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.

The sailors assigned to an East Coast Naval Special Warfare unit killed were: